Subject: Re: how to write man pages
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/2002 10:44:05
"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> Every time I think about writing man pages, I look at mdoc.samples
> and think, that looks *hard*.  Isn't there an easier way?  No smgl and
> dsssl or xslt for man pages?  

If you know docbook, you can use
http://mama.sourceforge.net/perl/current/doc/html/  to convert it into
groff.  It's a perl script.  I used it for
http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2 - see some sgml input files under
http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/sgml/

-Jan

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